Making batik is fun, probably you want to try making your own batik you can check some steps for batik processing, below :

  1. Making design on the white material
    1. Copying the original design
    2. Directly without copying before
      They not used for Stamp Processing.
  2. Next Steps
    1. Covering design with wax (klowong) on the both sides
    2. Filling designs with ornaments and small dots
    3. Covering some special part of the design to get the second colour ( Sawuk)
    4. Covering some special part of the design to get white colour ( Tembokan)
      For stamp processing we can directly do without making design before, for every stamp has its own designs
  3. Dyeing for the first colour
  4. Scraping some parts of of the wax to get the second colour by using a kind of knife omitting all the wak by putting the material in boiling water so that there are two colour, blue and white
  5. Covering some parts of the designs where are dots to them.
    note : After fifth processing we usually put dots on the lines of the design to make them nicer.
  6. Dyeing for the second colour, we can dye this many time if we want to make some more colour
  7. Omitting all the wax by putting the material in boiling water.
  8. Washing if the material is clean than we dry this in the shade
    note : The Traditional colour are usually blue, brown and light yellow. it is said to be live symbol